Pets

Your dashboard’s Pets section is where you register and manage the animals on your profile. Switch profiles in the sidebar and you’ll see that profile’s pets. To hand a pet to another account, or ask for one, see Transferring a pet.

My pets

Open Pets → My pets to see every pet registered to your active profile. Each pet shows its cover photo, name, species, UPC code (its permanent United Pet Club identifier), age and sex. Pets that are no longer alive or are available for breeding are flagged with a badge. Select a pet to open its profile.

Use the toolbar to find a pet quickly:

• Search by call name, registered name or UPC code. If a pet’s name is written in a non-Latin script, you can search it either by that name or by its Latin spelling — see Names in your own script.
• Filter by sex or species. In the list view these filters live in the column headers (click the funnel icon); in the card view they’re in the toolbar.
• Sort the list view by clicking a column header — Name, Species, Sex, Age or Code. Click again to flip between ascending and descending.
• Switch between the card and list views with the toggle in the top right.
• The card view loads more pets automatically as you scroll; the list view is paged — set how many pets to show per page at the bottom.

Each pet’s ⋮ menu (on its card, or at the end of its row in the list view) holds the shortcuts for that pet. Two of them:

• View public profile opens the pet’s page on unitedpetclub.com in a new tab — the page anyone can see, with its pedigree and photos. A pet with no breed on record has no public page yet, so the link says so instead.
• Report lost or stolen opens a recovery case for the pet straight from the list — see Reporting a pet lost or stolen. It shows only on the pets you own that are alive. If the pet is already reported, the same entry shows the open report and lets you mark the pet found.

Register a pet

Click Register a pet in the left menu (or the button on My pets) to launch the step-by-step wizard:

1. Ownership — choose My pet. (Other’s Pet adds a registered pet you don’t own, for United Pet Club to review; it isn’t listed under your pets.)
2. Species — pick the kind of animal. Each species has its own small icon in the list, so you can spot yours at a glance.
3. Details — the pet’s call name (what you call it), the same name in your own script if you write it in one (optional — see below), an optional registered / pedigree name, and an optional microchip number. We check the microchip against our database as you type: because microchip numbers are globally unique, if one is already registered you’ll be asked to remove it before continuing (it can only belong to one animal).
4. About your pet — bio, birthday (mark it estimated if you’re not sure), sex and spay/neuter status, whether the pet is available for breeding, distinguishing marks, a description, place of birth and living address.
5. Photos — pick a cover photo and add more from your media library (optional).
6. Done — the profile is created and you can open it.

The wizard creates the pet, assigns its UPC code, attaches the microchip (if you entered one) and saves your chosen photos.

Names in your own script

A pet’s name is a name, not a word — UPC never translates it. A dog called برف is called برف on every page of the site, whatever language you or anyone else is reading in.

What we do store is the same name written two ways: as you write it, and spelled out in Latin letters. Both the Register a pet wizard and the pet’s Edit form give you two boxes for this:

• Call name — the everyday name.
• Call name in your own script — the same name in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Cyrillic, Greek, or any other script you use.

You can type them in either order; UPC works out which is which from the characters themselves. Leave the second box empty if your pet’s name is already written in Latin letters — most are, and nothing is missing if it stays blank.

Both spellings are searchable, so you can find برف by typing either “برف” or “Barf”. On your pet’s public page the name appears as you wrote it, with the Latin spelling shown underneath so visitors who can’t read the script still have something to go on. The registered / pedigree name works exactly the same way.

Pet profile

A pet’s profile page shows everything on record:

• Its cover photo, name, life status and UPC code.
• Key facts: species, sex, reproductive status, date of birth and age, place of birth and living address, distinguishing marks.
• Its description, photo gallery, identifiers (microchips and tags), names and ownership.
• For a mixed-breed dog, a Coat card recording whether it has a double coat (see below).
• A Preferred groom style card — how you usually have the pet done, with an optional reference photo link — that groomers see on every booking (see below).
• An Ownership card with the pet’s owners and its breeder (see below).

Browsing a pet’s photos

The photo area at the top of the profile shows the cover photo first, then every gallery photo in the order you set on the Photos tab. Each photo is shown whole, so a tall portrait or a wide panorama isn’t cropped and doesn’t push the rest of the page down.

• Use the ‹ › arrows, your keyboard’s ← → keys, or swipe on a phone to move between photos. The counter in the corner shows where you are (for example 2 / 5).
• Tap a thumbnail under the photo to jump straight to it.
• Click the photo, or the expand button in the corner, to open it full screen. The arrows, keys and thumbnails work there too; press Esc or × to close.

Someone a pet is shared with (view only) can browse the same photos. On the Photos tab they can also click any photo to open it full screen.

From the ⋮ menu you can report the pet deceased (this updates its life status but keeps the profile on your account) or archive it (hides it from your list).

Double coat (mixed-breed dogs)

A double coat is a dense, insulating undercoat beneath the outer coat. It matters to anyone who grooms the dog: a double coat should not be shaved, because the undercoat keeps heat out in summer as well as in. For a purebred the breed guide already says how the coat is built, so there is nothing to fill in. For a mixed-breed dog nobody can tell from the breed alone, so the pet profile carries a small Coat card where someone who has actually looked at the dog records it.

The card offers three answers: Unknown (nothing recorded, the default), Yes and No. Pick one and it saves straight away; the card then shows who recorded it and when.

Who can set it:

• You, as the owner or a co-owner.
• Anyone in the pet’s care circle — a groomer, vet or trainer you have given access to from the Who can see this pet’s notes card. Either level of access (full or limited) is enough, because a coat is not a medical fact.

A care-circle member’s answer replaces yours, and the card says so (“Set by a care-circle member”), so you always know whose judgement is on record. Choosing Unknown clears the answer and the note of who gave it. The card only appears on mixed-breed dogs; other pets never show it.

Once recorded, the answer also appears in the Quick info on the dog’s public profile page, so a groomer looking the dog up ahead of an appointment can see it.

Preferred groom style

The first thing a groomer asks is “how do you usually have them done?” — and the answer is usually retyped into every booking. The Preferred groom style card on the pet profile keeps it in one place, for any species that gets groomed:

• How do you usually have them done? — free text, in your own words: “teddy bear cut, ½ inch on the body, keep the tail plume, ears rounded”, “lion cut in summer”, “cords kept at 10 cm, never brushed out”.
• Reference photo link (optional) — the address of a photo of a previous groom or of the style you want. It must start with https://.

Press Save style. The card shows who recorded it and when. Clear removes both the text and the link.

Who can set it: you (owner or co-owner) and anyone in the pet’s care circle — so a groomer you have given access to can record the style they actually did after a visit, and the card says “Set by a care-circle member”.

What it does: whenever this pet is booked for a groom, the style on file at that moment is copied onto the appointment and shown to the groomer under Visit brief. Editing the card later changes future bookings only, never one already made. The style is not shown on the pet’s public page.

Ownership, co-owners and the breeder

The Ownership card lists the pet’s current owners by name, each with their role (Owner or Co-owner), whether they are the primary contact, and their share when one is recorded.

Add a co-owner. If you are the pet’s owner of record, select Add Co-owner. It opens the transfer request with Co-ownership already chosen: pick the person (or invite them by e-mail) and send it. They become a co-owner once they accept; see Pet transfers. A co-owner can manage the pet like you can, but only the owner of record can add another co-owner.

Breeder. Under the owners, the card shows who bred the pet. Select Add Breeder (or Change) to record it:

• On United Pet Club — search for the breeder’s or kennel’s profile by name or @handle.
• Not on United Pet Club — type the breeder’s name.
• Kennel affix (optional) — the kennel prefix or suffix used in registered names.

Press Save. Remove Breeder clears it. Any owner or co-owner can set the breeder. Everyone who can see the pet sees it.

Care plans

A care plan is a routine you want to keep to — weekly weigh-ins, a daily tablet, a recheck in six weeks. On the pet’s Records tab choose New plan, give it a name, then add the things it should ask for. Each item has a kind (medication, monitoring, diet, recheck…), a first due date, and how often it repeats.

Tap Done when you’ve done it. A one-off item is then finished; a repeating item comes straight back with its next date counted from when you actually did it — so falling a week behind doesn’t leave you with a pile of missed reminders to clear.

Anything due or overdue across all your pets appears at the top of your dashboard, where you can tick it off directly. Every check-off is kept, so you and your vet can see how well a routine has actually been followed.

Finished with a plan? Close it — its reminders stop, and the history stays on the record. You can delete an item you added by mistake, but not one you’ve already completed.

A plan someone else started (your vet’s, for example) is theirs to change or close. Use Ask to close on it and they decide; the same goes for a medical record a clinic wrote (Ask to cancel). See Asking to cancel a record or close a care plan.

Diet

The pet’s Diet tab shows what it eats at a glance: the current foods, how the plan compares with the usual need for its weight, and any warnings. Open diet leads to the full Diet page, where you record and change the diet, log meals, see intake charts, record the bag you opened, and answer recall notices. When a food the pet eats is recalled, a notice also shows at the top of the pet’s page. See Your pet’s diet.

Symptom log

On the pet’s Records tab you can keep a daily symptom log — no vet visit needed. Tap Log symptom, pick what you noticed (vomiting, tiredness, itching, coughing…), optionally grade it Mild / Moderate / Severe, set when it happened, and add a note about the details.

Entries are grouped by day, so patterns — “she’s been off her food three days running” — show up at a glance, and your vet sees the same log on the pet’s health record.

A mis-tap can be retracted: like every clinical entry, a symptom is never deleted or edited — it stays on the record marked as retracted and drops out of the log. Only the person who logged an entry can retract it.

Getting your pet found in search

Every registered pet on United Pet Club has a public profile page, and every one of them is listed for search engines like Google — the registry’s completeness is the point. What you add to the profile decides how well that listing performs:

• A cover photo — add one on the pet’s Photos tab. The photo is what search results and link previews show; a listing with a real photo gets clicked, a grey placeholder does not.
• Parents on record — a pet with its sire or dam recorded is part of a pedigree, which is exactly what people search a registry for, and connects your pet’s page to its relatives’.
• A registered name — the name people actually type into a search box when they look a pedigree up.

New pages and changes are picked up by search engines within a few days of their next visit.

Letting others watch a pet grow

To let a buyer, a family member or anyone you send a link to follow a pet’s photos and growth without joining its care circle, see Sharing a pet or a litter. Sharing stops by itself when the pet goes to its new owner.